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FedEx and Amazon Discussed Partnership as Competition for Returning Packages Intensifies

The talks didn’t result in a deal but illustrate shifts in the growing business of handling parcels that customers send back The talks didn’t result in a deal but illustrate shifts in the growing business of handling parcels that customers send back FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

New Google Feature Will Wait on Hold for You

Photo: charles taylor / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Google’s testing a new feature called “Talk to a Live Representative” that will contact businesses for you, navigate their phone trees, wait on hold, and then call you when a real human being is ready to chat. It could solve one of the more frustrating parts of dealing with corporations, and it brings us one step closer to a world where we all have our own weird little personal robots that to talk each other on our behalf. Apple Unveils Its iPhone 15 and Apple Watch

FedEx announces its own commerce platform for merchants

Logistics company FedEx announced its own commerce platform called FDX today. The platform will likely compete against Amazon by offering merchants services like demand generation, fulfillment, tracking, and post-purchase experiences including returns. The company said that FDX is currently in private preview with plans for a wider launch in fall 2024. Businesses can register their interest in trying it out through a form. The company didn’t mention any brands that are part of the pilot program.…

FedEx is building its own all-in-one ecommerce platform

FedEx is planning to launch an ecommerce platform called “fdx” later this year. The shipping company the move on Sunday, describing fdx as an end-to-end online shopping hub that aims to provide sellers with solutions for everything from reaching potential customers to order fulfillment and returns. Sounds… familiar. FedEx says it’s targeting fall 2024 for the official launch.The details are so far pretty scant, but fdx is being billed as a “data-driven” platform that will use FedEx’s insights to optimize basically every…

Santa Anita opens amid worries over FedEx horse shipping shutdown

Near the end of the 1999 movie “Runaway Bride,” Julia Roberts, hops on the back of a FedEx truck fleeing yet another potential marriage.Those in attendance are dumbfounded but not surprised. The character played by Rita Wilson, the potential groom’s ex-wife, asks her husband, and the groom’s editor, played by Hector Elizondo: “Where is she going?”Elizondo responds: “I don’t know, but she’ll be there by 10:30 tomorrow.”If only it were that simple today.FedEx is now the only major air carrier that moves horses, but that…

General Mills, FedEx warn about weak demand

Limited Edition holiday breakfast cereal, Christmas Crunch in holiday shapes, Target store, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Lindsey Nicholson | Getty ImagesTwo big companies weighed in on persistent demand woes this week.General Mills, which reported earnings Wednesday morning, said tepid demand and pricing pressures are compounding problems for the Dunkaroos and Bisquick maker. That echoed what FedEx said in its report after the bell Tuesday. FedEx shares fell…

FedEx (FDX) earnings 2Q 2023

A FedEx plane carrying Ya Ya, a female giant panda that has lived in the United States for two decades, lands at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on April 27, 2023 in Shanghai, China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesFedEx shares tumbled 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the package-delivery giant lowered its revenue forecast as weaker demand hit sales.The company said it expects a low-single-digit decline in revenue for the fiscal year, down from a previous forecast for flat sales year-over-year. Analysts…

Could UPS and FedEx get holiday packages to their destinations faster? This research suggests yes

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every year, parcel delivery companies—think UPS and FedEx—hire tens of thousands of seasonal driver helpers to handle the deluge of presents that arrive with the holidays. At peak times, shipping firms depend on their helpers just as much as Santa depends on his elves. And those companies could save millions of dollars each year—and shave time off their deliveries—simply by tweaking the roles…

FedEx invests $100 million in Hyderabad’s Tech Hub to promote job growth and innovation

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, has invested USD 100 million in Hyderabad's economic landscape. The company has inaugurated its first Advanced Capability Community (ACC) in Hyderabad, which is a hub for technological and digital innovation. The launch ceremony was attended by FedEx Corporation President and CEO Raj Subramaniam and Richard Smith, FedEx Express President and CEO of Airline and International.The FedEx ACC is aligned with the Telangana government's strategic emphasis on nurturing a thriving pool of…

Amazon Takes the Delivery Throne From UPS and FedEx

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc (Getty Images)Amazon will deliver more packages in 2023 than anyone, according to a report Monday from the Wall Street Journal. The tech giant is on track to surpass UPS and FedEx in shipping volume this year, and it seems fitting that a tech giant will undoubtedly ship more gifts than anyone this Cyber Monday.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThere’s a quiet changing of the guard in the delivery sector. Amazon is on track to deliver 5.9 billion packages in 2023, according to